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LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER, LA GRANDE, ORE.
Wednesday, MareK 23, 1932
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' ' Plaaaorl la fVio nnfinn whncfl
whom he hath chosen for his
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.'. ;' The World war has cost the United States fifty-one bil
lion dollars, according to former Secretary of the Treasury.
Andrew Mellon,, and it. will, have cost us nearly a hundred
billion before we are through paying, because of the enorm
ous interest charges. ;
; No sane person believes that we, or any Qther nation,
gained results that are worth
the war. So a great many
themselves with the thought
' great wars because war never pays. if'.l
i They point to Japan (which evidently failed to learn the
Jesson from the World war) and show how dearly she "is
paying for her doubtful gains in Manchuria and Eastern
! China. , ; i
i '
' And it is certain that modem methods of warfare are so
J costly that they defeat their own ends. Nations are coming
s 10 realize more cieany mat in any war uocn siaes lose., 1
j But war does pay! It pays those industries and individ
; uals which supply the needs of armies and navies and it
pays lavishly. Every war creates new millionaires.
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I XWgllb LllCiU IB UUU UJ.i UlU pilJlUlJUl Ul War, UllU Ulltlt
'root must be cut if we ever expect to enjoy the blessings ot
j peace on this earth. :
j It has been proven that certain manufacturers of arms,
j munitions, and aircraft have paid thousands of dollars for
! the spread of propaganda intended to break up international
I disarmament conferences! They put profits above every
i thing else.
i Admiral Samuel McGowan, who was purchasing agent for
jthe navy during the World war, had an excellent opportunity
:to observe the greed and profiteering of that period, and
he now urges legislation to
is his. plan:
"Amend the constitution so as to require that before war
Jean be declared or participated in (except only in the event
'of attack or invasion) there shall be a referendum:
: "That if a majority of the votes be cast for peace, there
'the matter ends; if for war, every able bodied male citizen
between the ages of 18 and 35 shall be drafted, and
s "That from the day war is declared until peace is finally
concluded, no price or wage shall exceed what it was 90
.days prior to the declaration.
"That all profits in excess of five per cent shall be for
feited to the government, and that no person, firm, or cor
poration shall in peacetime or wartime be received as a
contractor who is not a manufacturer, or a regular dealer, of
the articles to be supplied regular dealer being none other
than one who, at the time the
outright the articles offered or dependably controls their
source of supply."
The nations must adopt some such measures soon if the
will of the masses is to be respected. Otherwise the greed
of a few will continue to spread the propaganda that causes
the slaughter of thousands.
Other Papers
Say:
PIjAIX hfeakino
Declaring It Is time for plain
speaking, the Oregonlan asserts It is
the duty of the state highway com
mission to continue lt winter emer
gency relief work to provldo for the
unemployed in Portland, even though
it is admittedly bad pqllcy to plunge
the state further Into debt.
This Is much the somo talk heard
In congress where tho argument is
that a bankrupt treasury must tall
spin further Into debt to give federnl
relief to the unemployed, as tho
states and communities have exhaust
ed their resources a proposal the
Oregonlan disapproves.
The Oregonlan continues:
Fifteen thousand men who are
heads of families In Portland are out
of work and without means of sup
port for themselves and their de
pendents. Some of them are at the
verge of desperation. Conditions are
not Improving here. Unless they do
Improve these necessities wilt have to
be faced and met. If thousands in
destitution are told that the relief
program In their behalf has come
...WHW Business Manager
Mall
50o
..$2.60
6.00
ClnA ia t.ho Trfiivl and thp npnnlp'
own inheritance. Psalm 33 : 12;
anywhere near the cost of
people today are comforting
that there will be no more '
make war unprofitable. Hero
,
offer is submitted, either owns '
to an end they aro neither going to
remain calm about it indefinitely nor
bow submissively. Wo .who hnvo
Bhall do ourselves no good if wo with
draw Into a fool's purndlse.
This is perhaps tho best picture
of Hoover prosperity yet presented.
It will be remembered that Mr.
Hoover In his Palo Alto siweeh as
sured tho country that his election
was all that was necessary to abolish
poverty. He said:
Unemployment in the sense of dis
tress is widely disappearing . . . We
In America today arc nearer to the
final triumph over poverty than ever
beforo In the history of any land.
Tho poor house is vanishing from
among us. Wo have not yet reached
the goal, but, given n chance to go
forward with the policies ot the lust
eight years, and we shall soon, with
tho help of God, be in sight of tho
day when poverty will bo banished
from this nation. There Is no guar
anty against poverty equal to a Job
for every man. That is the primary
purpose of tho economic policies wo
advocate.
! We see how the miracle worked out,
! with Portland, the richct city In
Oregon which has not begun to tap
her own resources for relief of tho
unemployed clamoring for state aid.
In the metropolis is concentrated
I most of the wealth of the state. Until
Portland has exhausted hor resources,
her citizens should not demand one
department of the state bankrupt
liseir in Portlands behair, or one
class of taxpayers, the motorists, car
ry the burden of Portland's unem
ployed. Relatively Portland is no
worse off than other community.
Salem Capital Journal.
j WHY CHANGE HOUSES
j IS MIH-.STHKA.M
The fact la frequently mentioned
that white in private business admin
istration the United States leads the
world; in public business It stands
at the foot of the class.
I Thero are many reasons for this.
: Probably most Important la that
young men of ambition nnd ability,
seldom if ever choose to enter public
life. They enter business or one of
1 the professions. As a result profes
sional office holders as a class, are
' made up largely of time servers and
Incompetents. We have no trained
' public service class, as they have in
, England and Germany, for example.
j Another reason Is our established
: practice of turning out our public
service personnel every few years, and
replacing them largely by untried I
men. j
1 What would become of a business
corporation that followed that prac
tice? Lot all Its trained men out
at the end of two yearH or four years
regardless of whether they hnd givon
satisfaction or not, and start in to
train a new and inexperienced group?
The consequent Iwaste and lost
motion would put such a corporation
out of tho running in no time.
But that is what we do In public
business. That la what we are about
to do in the coming election.
Realizing the folly of such proced
ure, a practice has gradually grown
up in this country of returning men
to public offlco who have demon
strated their competence, honesty
and ability.
This Is good sense, absolutely sound
publlo policy, and for the sako of
good government, should always be
borno in mind, at election time. j
Mcdford Mall Tribune.
Canal Long Projected
The project for (lie construction
of a canal across the. Isthmus of
Panama is practically 400 yeurs old.
'JJiilhon and oilier Spanish explor
ers broached the subject to the em
peror of Spain In the early years of
the Sixteenth century, and surveys
were made' between 1S15 and 1025.
The demand-for a canal, however,
did not- become Insistent until the
boKlnnlng of the Nineteenth century,
with the Introduction of steani navi
gation. Named for Configuration
lhG iiiiiuo of tho niicient (ire fit
cltv Spiirln la tlorivcd from a Crook
verb inclining "to scatter." connect
ed with Kngllsh 'spnrsfV' nnd 'dia-
per.se.'' J ho nnme wns Riven be-
nniiuo nt llio Bfiiltnrnrl Irrofrnliii
form of the old cltv of Spnrta.
Amherst Student
Disappears
A srnreli wu.s instituted for Joint
H. Wright. 17-vi'jir-oId freshman
student, following Ills disappear
ance from Amherst college, lies
n member of a weal! Iiv mnlit
I tarda nt. (nJ.. family.
Peruvian Plotter
Sentenced to Die
Death was the sentence that n
court martial pronounced upon
Youthrul, smiling Jose Melsur
1ariiiez. convicted of tin attempt
to assassinate President Litis M.
Cerro of Peru. Here Marque, is
pictured after hl arrest as a reliel
plotter In December. (Government
agents suspected him of being a
figure In a widespread Common
1st revolutionary conspiracy.
OUT OUR WAY . , . By J. R. Williams j
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GOLW! 1 I GO OKI, MOW' f f ,
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i n,..U s PT.orr. BORM TtTW VEARS TOO SCOM ' o.aV ,J
RUSH RELIEF
TO STRICKEN
AREAS TODAY
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shaped black cloud, flying timbers,
then oblivion.
The death list near Cartersvtlle, Ga.,
was Increased to 11 today as rescue
workers reached an Isolated moun
tain district and found 20 farm
houses in ruins. Here the workers
learned Alfred High tower, 22 -year-old
farmer, had been killed and 14 hurt.
ThtniKumis Hurt
Estimates of the injured
as
Newest Justice
Newest member of the highest court of the lauil, llenjumln N. Cnr
dozo, runner Chief .ludge or the New York Court f Appeals, Is shown
above (right) as hynrrlved tit the eiipitot to be sworn in as nu Asso
ciate Just Iiv of the U. S. Supreiuu Court. Wit h hint !s Chief Justice
Charles Kviin.i Hughes. Justieu t nnlozo succeeded to the post vacated
by the retirement of Oliver Wendell Holmes.
"I Don't Mean to
While nearly a score of "rent striken" wen- eWrtrd from their lvirt
lmMils in the llnmv. New York, n hravy poller sunrit wis kept busy
cliv.rhiK the Mreit of coimiuinM plikelers. This picture shims one
woman strike s.nnKitliUcr unit her hiinnrr bring hastily escorted
from the scene.
AM'VOU AiT ' 1 BE.WOVvJ, W OSCAC? SHE.
GOklMA GIT OOT DOGGOUE. iTf ( AIMT GoiW j
oF it. y X SAID t jTO BTT VOO.;
? DiOki' WAmT
wnv,vooRe To PLAV t)ftzSS
-JC4- SHE.S Tv-lis GAME.
Good lookim'! leave me j SfPIP
. OlOJA SEE WHOT I ' ffifefaSg
high as 2500 while the homeless were
estimated upward of 7000.
A dawn check of fatalities, which
have Increased steadily since first re
ports of seven dead Monday, dis
closed 240 known killed In Alabama
today, 35 in Georgia, 18 in Tennessee,
2 In South Carolina and 2 in Ken
tucky for a total of 303 In tho five
states struck by storms.
Relief workers sent back reports of
some of tho additional dead after they
made their way over storm littered
roads to aid communities laid flat by
the freakish spring winds. Other re
ports came as regions Isolated by the
blasts were able to reestablish com
munlcation lines. And still others
of Highest Court
Hurry You, But-
followed the search of wreckage. The
hundreds of homeless had a wave of
cold weather added to their discom
forts and farmers over the hardest hit
areas faced the prospect of a planting
season without shelter, implements or
livestock.
As highways were opened today, in
jured were removed from make-shift
hospitals in churches, courthouses
and other available buildings pressed
Into emergency service, to hospitals
in the larger cities.
National guardsmen hurried tents,
cots and blankets to the devastated
areas of Alabama while welfare agen
cies solicited food and clothing for
survivors. Rescue and relief workers
called on every avallablo resource to
aid the stricken.
Calls For Contributions
Governor B. M. Miller, of Alabama,
issued a formal proclamation calling
on the people of the state to con
tribute to tho relief of storm suffer
ers and the Red Cross organized for
speedy aid to the injured.
National guardsmen patrolled Tus
caloosa and Talladega counties In
Alabama to prevent looting and pa
trols were established at Northport
and Sylacauga. An airplane was i
sent to Lineville, Ala., to survey storm
damage there and in surrounding Clay
county towns and a truck was held
In readiness at Montgomery to send
out supplies if needed.
There were reports of damage from
high winds in states bordering those
hardest) struck.
Today chief efforts were devoted to
caring for the injured and providing
mii.-n.er lor xne homeless.
PEACE WORK
AT SHANGHAI
THREATENED
(Continued Prom Page One)
parleys would be delayed at least
uncu xmirsdny.
Japanese authorities expressed con
cern over tho move, declaring they
uvuuvuu tno situation mleht ho morn
deep-seated than appeared.
an opinion was freely expressed
among tho public that the Chinese
military leaders were anxious to es-
enpo participating In the parleys, be
lieving they would be subjected to
criticism regardless or the outcome.
Meanwhile the League or Nations
commission of Inquiry, which had
Intended to stay here until a truce
was assured, arranged today to leave
for Nanking on Saturday.
commission (o Divide
On tho way It will split Into two
groups, ono going to Nanking and
uie otner stopping orf to visit the
Hangchow ' airdrome where bombs
were dropped by Japanese nlanes.
This group will Join the others at
Nanking later.
For the past two days tho com
missioners have been studying tho
local situation with the Chinese and
foreign authorities. Japanese busi
ness men also have been consulted.
At Nanking they will remain until
the end of the month before going
to Pciping.
BLOODY CLASH IN 5LNCHl'ItIA
CHANOCHUN, Manchuria. Mar. 23
OPI A new battle, in which five Jap
anese and 42 Chinese were killed,
broke out today in the widespread
revoii in mrin province against the
new Manchurian state.
It was the fourth encounter in
24 hours and occurred at Toachlatun.
35 miles southwest of here on tho
South Manchuria railway. The re
volt is reported to be under the di
rection of Tslng Hal, anti-Japanese
war loru.
Japanese forces said the Chinese
retreated after the encounter.
Moro than 150 were reported killed
yesterday in battles at Nanhuto,
Huangnlho and Tatun.
Cranberry's Value
Certain tribes of American In
dians look upon the cranberry with
reverence as having virtues that
prolong life. It Is Inlcrestlng to
note that what was superstition with
them Is fact with us In the light of
sclcntlllc Investigation. Cranber
ries contain vitnniins which moke
them n valuable adjunct to the win
ter dietary. To get the benefit of
their health-giving value they should
not be boiled too long.
Fever's Many Names
Relapsing fever is the name given
to a specific Infectious disease occa
sionally appearing as an epidemic
In communities suffering from scarc
ity or famine. It Is also known
as famine fever, seven-day bilious
relapsing fever nnd spirillum fever.
Smaller Crop Of
Pigs This Year
In Wallowa Co.
By O. C. Meek
(Observer Correspondent)
WALLOWA, Ore. (Special) A. W.
Johnson, shipping director of the
Wallowa County Stock Marketing as
sociation, the latter part of last week
loaded out a car of fat hogs from
Lostlne. Due to less fattening dur
ing the past few weeks only occa
sional shipments of hogs have been
made by the association. ThoBe hav
ing a few hogs which were about
ready for marketing felt It an excel
lent time to take advantage of the
slight raise In prices.
Present -Indications are that con
siderably fewer spring pigs may be
raised In this community than was
the case last year. Beginning with
lost fall a -smaller number of brood
sows were held over for spring fur
rowing and with many of the litters
coming during the month of March
rather ptior luck has been experi
enced by many of the farmers in
saving the - pigs. In some Instances
whole' lltterfi coming during tho cold
stormy weather, were lost. There has
also been 'a. 'rather heavy loss of late
fall pigs at some of the farms In the I
community from various causes.
There is still quite a shortage of
feed among many of the farmers of .
the community. With frequent hay
shipments reaching here during the
past several weeks many have pur
chased a few tons of hay to tide them
through until they were able to get
their stock on grass. However, with
feeding still necessary at the greater
part of the farms, the sma.ll supplies
are rapidly being depleted and a
steady call for small lots of hay Is
reported. There has been a consider
ably better demand for barley and
oats for feeding purposes, according
to some of the farmers who have
had grain of this kind for sale. Some
recent sales of feed barley have been
made at 920 per ton.
A community school meeting was
scheduled for March 22 at the High
school here for the purpose of fur
ther discussion of the matter of con-;
solidatton of some of the rural schools
of the community with the town
school. The plan Is said to have been
favored by some of the people in the
outside districts, while others are
not impressed with the idea believing
that It will likely mean somewhat
higher taxes.
Gerald Harmon, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Harry Harmon who live In the
hills northeast of Lostlne, underwent
an operation recently at the local
hospital for appendicitis, his condi
tion was considered very serious at
first, however, latest reports are that
he is getting along quite satisfactor
ily. A considerable number of men have
left here ' recently for Imnaha and
Snake river sheep camps In an effort
to secure work through the lambing
season. Among those leaving the
early part of the week were Irvin
Gastin and Cal Hetrlck and on Friday
Bob Couch. Clarence Evans and
Duard Sootto left for the river. t
''Sari-v'Meek was at;' the- John Bales
farm -at Leap the ;early. part of - the j
week getting a load of feed grain.
Fred. -Rinchart and some members
of the county road crew were work
ing on the Leap road recently clean
ing out a snowsllde which blocked
the road In the' canyon west of the
Frank Walker farm.
James Anderson started working at
John Couch's the first of last week.
Frank Walker, of Leap, was an En
terprise business visitor the latter
part of the week. Mr. Walker expects
to move from his present home In
the Leap community this spring and
Is looking for a farm to lease at pres
ent. , , ' ;
Some of the residents of the Leap
section have been able to use their
cars some during the past week or
two In making weekly trips Into town.
Sometime ago the most of the snow
was removed from the market road
leading Into the community and the
large amount of rain which fell re
cently has melted away the remain
ing snow and settled the road bed
quite well.
Lambing Is starting among some of
the other sheep flocks of this sec
tion. Thfe" most of the small farm
flocks which started lambing in late
January and February have finished
at this time. While a considerable
loss of lambs was suffered In the
mid winter lambing, many report
around 100 per cent lambs saved and
In most Instances the lambs have
made a fairly good growth despite the
lack of early grass. Several have
been feeding the lambs and are well
pleased with results obtained in this
manner.
Roy Gastin was at John Bales the
latter part of the week getting some
barley for, feeding purposes.
Dee Gastin visited a few days the
last of the week at the John Bales
home In Leap. J. D. Slaughter who I
is farming the J. H. Haun ranches
In the Parsnip creek section wos a
business visitor in town the latter
part of -the week. He reports the j
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sponsored by
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"I consider Phoenix Boulevard
Tones, featuring Promenade
Beige, the smartest of the new
Spring Hosiery shades,' says
Eric, Paris foremost faBliion
artist.
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color print of
Eric's painting "Promenade."
interpreting Promenade Beige
with every purchase of 2
pairs of Phoenix Hosiery. For
n limited time only.
snow disappearing quite rapidly in
that part of the community and says
the- grass Is beginning to get quite
well started on the south slopes.
PORTLAND CASH
PORTLAND, Ore., Mar. 23 (p)Cash
wheat: Big Bend bluestem 61 &c.
soic white 52c.
Western white 62c.
Hard, winter 50c.
Northern spring 60c.
Western red 60c.
Oats: No. 2 white $22.50.
Today's car receipts: wheat 24;
flour 4; com 1; hay 3.
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NEW YORK, Mar. 23 (P) Bar sil
ver firmer and c higher at 29c.
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a tier coffee
than
MONARCH
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And Their Sale
Prices on
RADIOS
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I Have Ever Seen
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